AMITE — Tangipahoa Parish officials urged caution at railroad crossings Thursday after a motorist was killed in a collision with a passenger train.
Dorian Batiste, 22, died when the southbound City of New Orleans hit the front end of a pickup truck in which he was riding Wednesday afternoon, the sheriff’s office said. Batiste was thrown from the truck. The driver of the truck had minior injuries, and a train passenger suffered a panic attack, the sheriff’s said.
The north-south Canadian National line through Tangipahoa Parish crosses 46 streets and roads, and Wednesday’s crash occurred at one of four that don’t have either warning lights or a physical barrier…